Summary: Stranglehold is John Woo's first foray into videogames. Whether Woo was intimately involved in guiding Stranglehold or more of a watchful father, his influence can be felt in every frame. Midway has managed to capture the essence of a Woo film -- in some ways more than Woo has over the past decade. You get everything a fan could ask for: excessive gunplay, heavily-stylized cinematic moments, melodrama, slow-motion dives, dual-fisted pistols, and, of course, doves aplenty. Some have called Woo's films a beautiful ballet of violence. Stranglehold is less ballet and more a mosh pit of bullets. Either way, lots of people die and little in the environment is left standing once the smoke clears.Read Full Article

this game is all hype. its good for my kids because of the easy and boring controls. i'd say a great shooter for un experienced gamers who play shooter games. they just got me way too excited for this game and when i finally played it i was bummed out. oh well, back to all those other awesome games out on the 360, and oh...yea...SEPTEMBER 25TH!!!!!!!!!!!

this game is all hype. its good for my kids because of the easy and boring controls. i'd say a great shooter for un experienced gamers who play shooter games. they just got me way too excited for this game and when i finally played it i was bummed out. oh well, back to all those other awesome games out on the 360, and oh...yea...SEPTEMBER 25TH!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved the demo but was really hoping the single player would be a bit longer. I'll probably end up getting the PS3 version so I can get Hard Boiled too since the multiplayer isn't really a factor (I hate playing online on PS3).

I agree with dynomitemasta. The slow motion does get old fast, but I'm still buying this. I'm still upset Lair got such a terrible score. I need a good game (even though I still haven't finished Bioshock or Metroid 3). I did have fun with the demo despite the repetitiveness, I mean only four specials? Come on this is 2007 we need variety.

8.1? If the demo on marketplace was any indicator of how good this game was, then it should be a 6.0 at best. I found the demo to be extremely mediocre, and got bored very quickly. The AI is horrible. They just stand there and shot at you in without taking cover most of the time. So the developer seems to try to cover that up by making you fight WAY TOO MANY ENEMIES. Very sloppy developing.

Instead of going through the trouble to make the AI good, and make each enemy at least somewhat challenging, they just decided to make you fight hundreds and hundreds of easy enemies. The controls suck too, most will just slow motion most of the time.

Seems like the formula is, you fight 50-100 enemies running into an area shooting at you, you kill them, and door opens, you go into the newly unlocked area, you fight 50-100 enemies, you kill them, a door opens you go into the newly unlocked area. you fight 50-100 enemies.... repeat cycle for 6 hours. BORING!!!!

Like I said though, I've only played the demo, so I can only judge the game on that, but I saw a VERY sloppy and mediocre game. I guarantee 8.1 is too much. I've seen a lot of very good games with 8.0 average scores, and i guarantee they are far superior to this mess.

This a playable John Woo movie. And like the movies it's something you don't over think and you just let your instincts for enjoying violence and mass destruction drive you through to the end. Expect any more and you will be disappointed. It's just hit and run play. Take it for what it is and you'll enjoy it more. Honestly I would have preferred if this game was Max Payne 3 than Stranglehold. The game play is to similar to Max Payne to be fresh for a new series.

dont kno but i had alot of fun with the demo, stupid ai is just all part of making the game fun. its just like his movies. its a shoot em up. imagine having gears ai in stranglehold would that be fun jumping and diving like a retart? ur head would be gone before u pop outta cover

The reason this game is so good because it was suppose to be a ps3 game but what the heck you xbox guys don't have a lot after halo3 and massaffect so have fun while you can starting this holiday season the king(ps3) will take it rightfull place don't belivee it look at the game list and then talk out of your ass

Xbox 360 fans talk out of their ass no doubt about it afetr this year ps3 will kick your ass like ps2 did next year's line up says it all. it is sony and they make better games than microsoft so shove your thought back in you behind dumm azz stupid ass and ass holes

"The reason this game is so good because it was suppose to be a ps3 game"
wow u amaze me

"but what the heck you xbox guys don't have a lot after halo3 and massaffect so have fun while you can starting this holiday season the king(ps3) will take it rightfull place don't belivee it look at the game list and then talk out of your ass "

It is funny how most of you guys have an xbox360 but in your review you all say i ahve all three systems just so we don't look at you as an fanboy look at the ps3 line up for next year thna go and find a xbox360 line up for next year then come talk out of your ass like you know best

What the hell was xbox360 for its first two years even though at that time they had no ps3 or wii now you are talking about xbox360 being great yeah after 2 years and that's why ps3 will improve ps3 has better features and soo xbox360 will bring all of those and release an xbox part two or some thing

Actually Factor 5 made that game, not sony, come to think of it, does Sony even make games? Anywho, who started the whole Lair thing? I hope people aren't comparing a dragon game to a shooting game. lol
Lets just admit it, PS3 will get some good games, and there's a lot of crappy games on all the systems, that's just the way it goes.

This game looks pretty impressive, but I honestly think 360 has too many shooters, but that's just my opinion, I guess if I was to get a shooter for the 360, this one would be it.

why are you talking about next year?theres still 4 months left this year dumbass. that means 4 more months of the ps3 sucking.so keep waiting while i play halo 3,mass effect, bioshock, cod 4, and so many other great 360 games...

The reason most of you are here at ign because ign rates games better for xbox360 then ps3 and right now xbox360 is better but not for long besides couple of games all of the holiday line is the same for ps3 and xbox you have halo and mass affect we have little big planet and free home service for ps3 and great games we will see in a year who is better

Hey hey hey no more ps3 bashing. After all the ps3 can do one thing very very well. It takes great 360 games and makes horrible ports. Also it has the Bluray that lets it make huge games like lair. I dont think 360 could do 25 gigs of pure SUCK.

dumm ass it's the last four months if that halo 3 mass affect will be ok cod is coming for ps3 even a bigger dumm ass just answer this how was you xbox 360 out of the box i know because i had it. it sucked itt had like 20 games for the fisrg year most of them sports and now you guys talk about 360 was like it is greater than any thing else

last thought of mine are that wii and ps2 is beating you so try to saty up on the ps3 because since the price drop ps3 is selling more than xbox360 and that's a fact u can't close your eyes on. blu-ray vs no hd-dvd i know who is going to win tha all of you guys talk about right now xbox 360 is better right now you won't be able to say that for long enjoy your halo 3 which is the same as the first hal with better graphics u all are offically been found xbox 360 fan boys so stick it

What the hell you mean age has nothing to do with it xbox 360 came a year before ps3 and wii so you can't say that if you are smart i really doubt that it's me againt all of you fanboys so come to ps3 section and so i can have some back up